Holy anchovies! $6M pizza oven lawsuit

Grimaldi's ex-landlord is taking heat for getting the famed pizzeria's old brick oven out of the kitchen.

The slice haven's owners filed a $6 million lawsuit against the lessor of their former location under the Brooklyn Bridge, accusing the landlord of discarding the shop's unique, coal-fired oven.

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"It was spiteful," said lawyer Peter Pruzan who filed the suit Monday in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

The suit, filed in Brooklyn Criminal Court, blamed the Dorothy Waxman Removable Living Trust for scrapping the oven after the restaurant was evicted — and moved next door — in 2011 following a legal battle.

A judge had issued an injunction, barring the removal of the oven, but the decision was overturned three months ago, records show.

The original oven is goneGrimaldi's, which moved next door, uses another brick oven and still attracts luminaries and long lines of tourists to its waterfront location below the Brooklyn Bridge.

The pizza joint was forced to move next door following a legal battle in 2011. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

But Pruzan said that if they hadn't used the famous oven from the old location, the restaurant owners planned to distribute its bricks as mementos in their 41 offshoot locations.

"It's like pieces of grass from Yankee Stadium," he said.

Coal ovens can reach 1000 degrees and are integral to making world-class pizzas.

Mark Waxman, who runs the property, sliced and diced the suit, calling it "ridiculous."

He said the pizzeria owner "destroyed the oven himself" along with other parts of the restaurant upon moving out. He added the brick structure could not have been taken out anyway because of its size.